Live auction - Lot 709
[Astronomy]
Le système du monde, selon les trois hypothèses, où conformément aux loix de la méchanique, l'on explique dans la supposition du mouvement de la terre [...].
Paris, G. Desprez, 1675
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
8vo: [36]-457-[1] pp. (sm. hole in text f. C4, occ. spotting).
Contemp. sheep, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands (head sl. damaged, gilt faded, corners sl. bumped).
First edition. Rare work describing the cosmologies of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe from a cartesian perspective. Numerous in-text ill., some full-page.
Ref. BnF.
Prov. Jean Mayland (old ms. entry).
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